Mission, Vision & Values
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Mission
Excellence in engaging, empowering, and enriching today for tomorrow's expectations
Core Values
- Communication: Expressing, receiving, and sharing information
- Empathy: Acknowledging the perspective, emotions, and experiences of all stakeholders
- Global Competence: Responding to and understanding diverse cultural practices and world viewpoints
- Imagination: Envisioning creative and innovative ways to take risks and solve problems
- Integrity: Making ethical choices and doing the right things regardless of personal gain
- Learning: Acquiring, processing, and retaining information for life-long use
- Motivation: Achieving goals through personal drive
- Ownership: Having pride and taking responsibility for one's actions and their outcomes
- Passion: Sparking the emotional connection that ignites one's purpose
- Work: Being accountable and persevering
Beliefs & Guiding Principles
Students
- Learn when their instructional, social, and emotional needs are addressed.
- Participate in relevant, rigorous, and authentic learning experiences.
- Respect themselves, adults, peers, and their school environment.
- Engage in future-focused and interdisciplinary learning.
- Exhibit curiosity and explore individual learning interests.
- Demonstrate growth and/or mastery while advancing their learning.
- Experience learning through diverse environments.
- Participate in challenging experiences.
Teachers
- Are life-long learners who prepare through continuous, meaningful professional development.
- Enhance instruction using students' needs and interests.
- Encourage self-reflection and questioning.
- Maintain high expectations.
- Develop a positive rapport with all stakeholders.
- Embrace innovation, experimentation, and risk-taking.
- Support student's academic, social and emotional well-being.
- Build knowledge, skills, community, and connections.
Learning Communities
- Take risks and share successes.
- Invest in common goals.
- Align policies and practices.
- Provide real-world experiences.
- Encourage new and diverse ideas.
- Collaborate to support students' academic, social, and emotional well-being.
- Embrace innovation, experimentation, and growth.
- Demonstrate patience and understanding while implementing policies and practices.